'Tis easier for the generous to forgive.Than for offence to ask it. [ Thomson ]

It is easier to strike than defend well. [ Proverb ]

To follow foolish precedents, and winkWith both our eyes, is easier than to think. [ Cowper ]

Heresy may be easier kept out than shook off. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Nothing is easier than to deceive one's self. [ Proverb ]

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend. [ Mme. Deluzy ]

A young twig is easier twisted than an old tree. [ Proverb ]

It is easier to miss, than to hit a needle's eye. [ Proverb ]

Adversity is easier borne, than prosperity forgot. [ Proverb ]

It is is easier to bear unkindnesses than affronts. [ Proverb ]

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct. [ Earl Of Beaconsfield ]

It is easier to fill a glutton's belly than his eye. [ Proverb ]

It is easier to make all Europe agree than two women. [ Louis XIV ]

It is easier to prevent ill habits than to break them. [ Proverb ]

It is easier to avoid a fault than acquire perfection. [ Proverb ]

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

It is easier to build two chimneys than to maintain one. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

It is easier to know how to speak, than how to be silent. [ Proverb ]

It it often easier to make new, than to cobble up the old. [ Proverb ]

It is easier to take care of a peck of fleas than of one woman. [ Proverb ]

It is easier to preserve a friend, than to recover him when lost. [ Proverb ]

It is easier to run from virtue to vice, than from vice to virtue. [ Proverb ]

It is easier to be good for everybody than to be good for somebody. [ A. Dumas fils ]

One gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves. [ Auerbach ]

It is easier to bear with what is amiss, than go about to reform it. [ Proverb ]

How much easier do we find it to commend a good action than to imitate it. [ Anon ]

There is no man easier to deceive than he who hopes; for he aids in his own deceit. [ Bossuet ]

There are no women to whom virtue comes easier than those who possess no attractions.

Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril. [ Pascal ]

It would be easier to endow a fool with intellect than to persuade him that he had none. [ Babinet ]

Advice about keeping secrets: it's a lot easier if you don't know them in the first place. [ Alan Turing ]

It is easier for a woman to defend her virtue against men, than her reputation against women. [ Rochebrune ]

How much easier it is to be generous than just! Men are sometimes bountiful who are not honest. [ Junius ]

It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not bold, than of the office which one fills. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching. [ William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice ]

It is easier for a wit to keep fire in his mouth, than to hold in a witty saying that he is burning to tell. [ Cicero ]

Those who attain any excellence commonly spend life in one common pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms. [ Johnson ]

It is easier to be a lover than a husband, for the same reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than now and then. [ Balzac ]

As I know more of mankind, I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly. [ Dr. Johnson ]

The reason why borrowed books are so seldom returned to their owners is, that it is much easier to retain the books than what is in them. [ Montaigne ]

Wickedness may well be compared to a bottomless pit, into which it is easier to keep one's self from falling, then, being fallen, to give one's self any stay from falling infinitely. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

There is a law of neutralization of forces, which hinders bodies from sinking beyond a certain depth in the sea; but in the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking. [ Lowell ]

It is much easier to meet with error than to find truth; error is on the surface, and can be more easily met with; truth is hid in great depths, the way to seek does not appear to all the world. [ Goethe ]

Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece; but it is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. [ Franklin ]

What caricature is in painting, burlesque is in writing; and in the same manner the comic writer and painter correlate to each other; as in the former, the painter seems to have the advantage, so it is in the latter infinitely on the side of the writer. For the monstrous is much easier to paint than describe, and the ridiculous to describe than paint. [ Fielding ]

We have more poets than judges and interpreters of poetry. It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one. There is, indeed, a certain low and moderate sort of poetry, that a man may well enough judge by certain rules of art: but the true, supreme, and divine poesy is equally above all rules and reason. And whoever discerns the beauty of it with the most assured and most steady sight sees no more than the quick reflection of a flash of lightning. [ Montaigne ]

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